November 30, 1999, was supposed to be the first day ... The city was put under a curfew, and sales of gas masks were banned. The Battle of Seattle, as it came to be called, continued until the ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, a raucous action by 50,000 protesters who descended on the city in the fall of 1999 ... the “Battle of Seattle” became ...